Fit for a King

Costume designer Jenny Beavan is no stranger to lavish period films, having contributed her talents to such projects as A Room With a View, Howards End, and Sense and Sensibility. But Anna and the King, which was filmed entirely in Malaysia, is in another category entirely. "I think it was the biggest thing I have ever undertaken," Beavan says of the $80 million 20th Century Fox picture, released in December. "We had to make all the clothes, because you can't go and rent 1860 Siam. Of ...